Indonesia rejects foreign aid for devastating Sumatra floods, citing self-sufficiency as death toll nears 1,000.

JAKARTA -- The death toll from recent floods and landslides across three provinces on Indonesia's Sumatra Island has risen to 442, the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) said on Sunday.

Flooding across much of south-east Asia fuelled by a rare cluster of three tropical storms has claimed the lives of more than 400 people in five countries, with Indonesia and Thailand the worst hit so ...

Indonesian Reliwati Siregar gestured angrily at deforestation around her home on the island of Sumatra, where landslides and ...

JAKARTA: Residents in Aceh Tamiang climbed over slippery logs and walked for about an hour on Saturday (Dec 6) to get aid, as ...

The floods and landslides that have killed more than 1,350 people in recent weeks are a grim reminder of the risks of a ...

By Ajeng Ulfiana and Yudhistira ACEH TAMIANG, Indonesia, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Residents in the Indonesian region of Aceh Tamiang ...

The waters may have started to recede, but the scars remain. Cyclone Ditwah has left Sri Lanka facing one of its worst ...

With vast areas hit and thousands of people injured, 1.2 million have been forced to take refuge in temporary shelters.

The governor of hard-hit Aceh warns starvation has become the gravest threat to survivors in remote villages cut off by the ...

The death toll following catastrophic floods and landslides in parts of Asia has past 1,500 as .rescue teams race to reach ...